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Re: Obama + Biden = Ultra Left Wing Extremism

Von: Bill M (wmech@bellsouth.net) [Profil]
Datum: 24.08.2008 15:55
Message-ID: <o6isk.16053$De7.8663@bignews7.bellsouth.net>
Newsgroup: alt.religion.christian alt.politics.bush alt.military.retired alt.military alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Why do you think your dishonest propaganda will win the election for
McCain???

"Trace" <tracey12_12@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:50b244ce-a68f-4b79-bb47-cecfa3e2e5fe@a8g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> On Aug 23, 7:28 am, Trace <tracey12...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Joe Biden attacked President  Ronald Reagan and Oliver North
>> ruthlessly during the Iran/Contra investigation.  He is the most hated
>> senator among Conservative Americans, and he will cause Obama to lose.
>>
>> Hillary is far left, but Biden is not only further to the left, but a
>> hater of things American.  Only one word can describe him well: He is
>> a radical.  American's are not.
>>
>> This ends the Obama campaign.  There is no way Obama can with with Joe
>> Biden on the ticket.
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The Case Against Joe Biden
>>
>> Yesterday we argued for why Barack Obama should pick Joe Biden as his
>> vice presidential running mate. Today we tackle the opposite argument.
>>
>> Loose Lips Sink Ships
>>
>> Over the course of his presidential bid, Biden cemented his reputation
>> as -- how to put this nicely? -- less than disciplined on the campaign
>> trail.
>> VP Watch
>>
>> In the summer of 2006, as he was publicly mulling the race, Biden set
>> off a controversy over comments he made about Indian Americans.
>>
>> "I've had a great relationship [with Indian Americans]," Biden said.
>> "In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans
>> moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts
>> unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
>>
>> On the day he formally announced his candidacy, a New York Observer
>> story that quoted Biden as calling Obama "articulate and bright and
>> clean and a nice-looking guy" came out, and the resultant uproar
>> effectively undercut any momentum Biden was hoping to build.
>> Joe Biden
>> Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), chairman of the Foreign Relations
>> Committee, talks to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) during the hearing.
>>
>> While Biden was on his best verbal behavior for much of the rest of
>> the campaign, there is no question that his tendency to shoot from the
>> lip worries some in Obama world. As one Democratic consultant put it:
>> "You know there will be three days in the campaign where someone in
>> Chicago will get a call and respond -- 'What did you say he said?.'"
>>
>> For a campaign that prides itself on its message discipline, choosing
>> Biden would be introducing a wildcard into the mix. The Obama campaign
>> exudes quiet confidence that if they do the basic political work
>> between now and Nov. 4 the Illinois senator will be president. Do they
>> really want to risk it with Biden?
>>
>> Plagiarizer In Chief
>>
>> Way back in 1987, Biden was riding high in the presidential race --
>> widely regarded as a serious contenders for the Democratic party's
>> nod.
>>
>> Then  Neil Kinnock happened. Biden borrowed passages of a speech given
>> by Kinnock, a leader in Britain's Labour Party, without attribution --
>> a mistake that led to a detailed examination of Biden's public
>> statements that turned up several more examples of potential
>> plagiarism and resume inflation. The feeding frenzy eventually chased
>> the Delaware senator from the race.
>>
>> The incident has become the stuff of political lore -- type "Joe Biden
>> and Neil Kinnock" into Google and more than 37,000 hits are returned
>> -- even though those close to Biden insist that the actual facts
>> surrounding the incidents are largely overblown.
>>
>> Maybe. But, while any political junkie worth his (or her) name knows
>> all about the Kinnock incident, it's a mistake to assume the average
>> voter knows about it. In the words of one Republican strategist: "Old
>> news inside the Beltway, new news outside."
>>
>> That reality means that in every story about Biden done in the
>> aftermath of his selection, Kinnock's name and the allegations of
>> plagiarism would come up. It would complicate the desired flawless
>> roll-out of the new ticket and could even raise questions about
>> Obama's commitment to a new kind of politics.
>>
>> Washington Insider
>>
>> The central tenet of Obama's campaign message is that if Americans
>> want to change their government, then they have to change the people
>> they send to Washington.
>>
>> Picking Biden, who has served in the Senate for the better part of the
>> last four decades, seems to run counter to that core message. Biden
>> was elected to the Senate at age 29 and spent only four years after
>> graduating from Syracuse Law School in 1968 working in the private
>> sector before entering public life.
>>
>> Biden has long been a regular on the Sunday talk show circuit and is
>> one of the pillars of the Democratic party establishment. His
>> accomplishments -- of which there are many -- all were achieved as a
>> senator operating inside the deepest heart of political Washington.
>>
>> Biden allies note that despite his long service in Washington he is,
>> at his core, an outsider inside the Beltway. While that may well be
>> true, the optics for Obama aren't great; he can't change the fact that
>> in picking Biden he would be going with someone who has spent nearly
>> his entire adult life not only in politics but as a member of the
>> world's greatest deliberative body.
>>
>> Joe Loves Joe
>>
>> One of the most overlooked episodes during the 1987 collapse of
>> Biden's campaign was a snippet of footage captured by C-Span in which
>> the Delaware senator, in response to a question about where he went to
>> law school and what sort of grades he received, delivered this classic
>> line: "I think I have a much higher IQ than you do."
>>
>> While any human being -- especially a candidate for president who is
>> constantly being poked and prodded -- can be forgiven a momentary
>> flash of temper, Biden's detractors point to that incident as evidence
>> that the senator thinks he is the bee's knees and doesn't care who
>> knows it.
>>
>> Biden, by his own admission, has the capacity to fall in love with his
>> own voice and wander off on tangents about his life that have nothing
>> to do with the topic at hand.
>>
>> During the 2006 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Samuel
>> Alito, the Post's Dana Milbank wrote this of Biden's performance:
>>
>> "Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., in his first 12 minutes of questioning the
>> nominee, managed to get off only one question. Instead, during his 30-
>> minute round of questioning, Biden spoke about his own Irish American
>> roots, his "Grandfather Finnegan," his son's application to Princeton
>> (he attended the University of Pennsylvania instead, Biden said), a
>> speech the senator gave on the Princeton campus, the fact that Biden
>> is "not a Princeton fan," and his views on the eyeglasses of Sen.
>> Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)."
>>
>> Ouch.
>>
>> There is evidence from the Democratic primaries that Biden is not only
>> aware of his tendency to go on (and on) about himself but is also able
>> to curb that natural tendency, however. In one of the best moments in
>> an unending series of Democratic debates, Biden was asked by moderator
>> Brian Williams whether he possessed the "discipline" to be the leader
>> of the free world. Biden's simple response -- "yes" -- brought the
>> house down and put the Delaware senator in The Fix's "winners" column
>> for the night.
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